tamarind
ukwaju · imli · puli · tamr hindī · tamarind
This is precisely how extraction works: the intermediary gets credited and the source disappears.
Cultural layer
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery (Madhur Jaffrey, 1982)
Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand (Leela Punyaratabandhu, 2017)
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 404 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
- ukwajuEndonymSwahili · East Africa
- imliEndonymHindi · South Asia
- puliEndonymTamil · South India
- tamr hindīColonial tradeArabic (Indian date, the trade name that erased the African origin) · Indian Ocean trade
- tamarindMarketEnglish (from the Arabic) · global market
Connections
18 bonds · 18 sourcedPad thai.
Gado-gado and satay sauce.
Sambar.
The sweet-sour balance.
The sweet-sour balance in chutney and sambar.
Tempe bacem.
Asam laksa.
Asam laksa.
Score unexamined
Alternative souring agents, rarely used together.
Sour drink blends.
Occasional in chutney.
Occasional in the condiment.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place.
Studio Culinar-E, "tamarind", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/tamarind
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.